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Assistant Professor
A specialist in African American literature and culture, Shanna Greene Benjamin earned her MA in Afro-American Studies and PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her teaching interests include black women writers, the African American short story, hip-hop culture, nineteenth-century American literature and black music and American cultural history. Her current project, "The Ananse Aesthetic: Transformations of the Trickster Spider in African American Folklore, Fiction, and Fiber Art," examines the presence of the Ghanaian trickster, Kwaku Ananse, in black oral traditions, the novels of select black women writers, and black women's weaving traditions.
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